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On Tuesday, May 3rd I recorded a 15 minute segment for the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education on Think TV, the local public television station in Dayton, Ohio.Â My topic was the rise of digital textbooks and options available for students and faculty to access and produce textbooks and learning materials.Â Below is a snapshot of my general comments with links to various sources for more information.

Our current textbook system is broken.Â We have arrived at $200 textbooks and have students who cannot afford them.Â As a result, students try to borrow a textbook from the library or a friend (sometimes the older edition), purchase a used one, or go without.Â Neither of these options provides revenue to the publisher, thus resulting in higher price points in an effort to recover the costs or production.Â Â What can we do about this catch 22? Continue reading Digital Textbooks and Open Educational Resources – Summary of SOCHE Think TV session→

On Tuesday, October 5th LYRASIS is hosting the 4th in its eBook Expo series. This free event with both in-person and virtual components will look at the timely topics of patron driven acquisition and discovery of ebooks. Â Speakers include:

Samuel Klein, Wikimedia Foundation Trustee and Director of
Outreach for One Laptop Per Child

Hundreds of encyclopedias added to Credoâ€™s award-winning reference platform this year.Â Enhanced platform provides even more value for researchers

Boston and Oxford, (September 16, 2009) â€“ Itâ€™s been a year since Credo Reference, the award winning online reference library, released its new platform, raising the standard for how online reference services should work for libraries. Since then, Credo has substantially expanded the academic content available on the platform, all at no additional cost for Credo Unlimited customers. Continue reading Credo Reference adds new content→

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